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<h1>Create context-sensitive help
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<p>Context-sensitive help assists users by providing help based on a specific dialog box or control in a program. This enables users to get specific information about whatever part of the program they are using at any given moment.</p>

<p>Help authors work with developers to create context-sensitive help. The help author creates a compiled help (.chm) file that contains the context-sensitive help topics and information that maps the topics to specific dialog boxes or controls. The developer modifies the program code so that the correct topic appears when a user requests help.</p>

<P>Context-sensitive help commonly appears in a <a href="cxt_p_ov.htm">pop-up window</a>, which displays a help topic about a specific user interface element. For example, you can design your program to have a question mark button in the title bar of a dialog box. When a user clicks the question mark button, and then clicks anywhere in the dialog box, they will see a pop-up help topic that provides information about the user interface element they clicked.
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<p>You can also design context-sensitive help topics to appear in a <a href="winsec.htm">secondary window</a>, an <a href="winebed.htm">embedded window</a>, or in a Web browser.
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